Joseph S. Pulver

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (born 1955 Schenectady, New York) is a zine editor, author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror fiction, noir fiction / hardboiled, and dark fantasy genres. He lives in Germany.

Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various small press magazines, foremost among them Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu. His tales cover subjects ranging from Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and Robert W. Chambers’ "King in Yellow."

Pulver’s professional debut came with the publication of his Lovecraftian novel, "Nightmare’s Disciple".